Actually, the internet archive is achieving exactly this goal unintentionally for economic reasons—they’re uploading data onto Filecoin because it is so deeply subsidized by the block reward, which has the indirect effect of checkpointing the data in a cryptographically robust way. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/universal-access-to-all-knowledge-decentralization-experiments-at-the-internet-archive
That is fantastic, hopefully this indicates an organization open to ideas, and if they’ve been doing this for a while it might be worth “rescuing” those timestamps.
Actually, the internet archive is achieving exactly this goal unintentionally for economic reasons—they’re uploading data onto Filecoin because it is so deeply subsidized by the block reward, which has the indirect effect of checkpointing the data in a cryptographically robust way. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/universal-access-to-all-knowledge-decentralization-experiments-at-the-internet-archive
That is fantastic, hopefully this indicates an organization open to ideas, and if they’ve been doing this for a while it might be worth “rescuing” those timestamps.